Detached bungalows witnessed the largest year-over-year price gains
climbing 1.8 per cent to $168,000. Prices for standard two-storey homes
rose modestly, up 1.0 per cent year-over-year to $200,000. Standard
condominiums sold for an average of $125,000 and saw no change in price
from the same period last year.

"Charlottetown experienced a fairly balanced market in the fourth
quarter and real estate activity in the region remained consistent with
levels from last year," said Ken Peters, broker and owner, Royal LePage
Peters & Lank Realty.

Nationally, despite calls in some quarters for Canadian house prices to
soften in 2011, the market proved resilient as demand created by low
interest rates and a relatively stable national economy created upward
pricing pressure for all housing types surveyed. Further, recent high
profile reports forecasting significant house price declines in 2012
are not supportable. In the fourth quarter, standard two-storey homes
rose 4.2 per cent year-over-year to $375,427, while detached bungalows
increased 6.1 per cent to $344,392. Average prices for standard
condominiums increased 3.6 per cent to $234,680.

"In the recovery period following the 2008-2009 recession, I found
myself repeatedly speaking of 'irrational exuberance' in the Canadian
housing market," said Phil Soper, president and chief executive of
Royal LePage Real Estate Services. "Expectations were too high and the
pace of expansion unsustainable. With this report, I find myself in
exactly the opposite position. Widespread calls for a major real estate
correction in 2012 simply can't be justified. The industry has
significant momentum entering the year, and is buoyed by the
stimulative effect of very low interest rates; we expect the market to
continue to expand - albeit at a slower pace."

Royal LePage expects average price growth to continue through 2012 and
predicts national average prices to increase by 2.8 per cent by the end
of the year.

About the Royal LePage House Price Survey

The Royal LePage House Price Survey is the largest, most comprehensive
study of its kind in Canada, with information on seven types of housing
in over 250 neighbourhoods from coast to coast. This release
references an abbreviated version of the survey which highlights house
price trends for the three most common types of housing in Canada in 90
communities across the country. A complete database of past and
present surveys is available on the Royal LePage Web site at www.royallepage.ca. Current figures will be updated following the complete tabulation of
the data for the fourth quarter 2011. A printable version of the fourth
quarter 2011 survey will be available online on February 10th, 2011.

Housing values in the Royal LePage House Price Survey are Royal LePage
opinions of fair market value in each location, based on local data and
market knowledge provided by Royal LePage residential real estate
experts.

About Royal LePage

Serving Canadians since 1913, Royal LePage is the country's leading
provider of services to real estate brokerages, with a network of
14,000 real estate professionals in over 600 locations nationwide.
Royal LePage is the only Canadian real estate company to have its own
charitable foundation, the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, dedicated
to supporting women's & children's shelters and educational programs
aimed at ending domestic violence. Royal LePage is a Brookfield Real
Estate Services Inc. company, a TSX-listed corporation trading under
the symbol TSX:BRE.